The MKX is a Lincoln, and any pretense of sporty handling is off the table. What’s surprising is that the ride is merely OK, given the amount of squat, dive and roll under acceleration, braking and cornering, respectively. Ask the MKX to take a quick corner, and you get nothing but howling tires and a nervous stability control system cutting off the throttle and activating various brakes; shutting it off results in early understeer. Off road, the softness of the suspension smoothed out uneven surfaces, but bottomed out even at be-careful speeds on the slightly rougher sections of our light-duty trail. Put short, the MKX is an unsatisfying drive on any road that isn’t smooth, flat and straight.